Search for missing plane enters new phase
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Officials say the chance of finding floating debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is highly unlikely, announce new phase of the search will focus on a far larger area of the Indian Ocean floor. Mana Rabiee reports.

Reuters

30 Apr 2014

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MALAYSIA will release a preliminary report today on the disappearance of flight MH370, nearly two months after it went missing, according to a transport ministry official.

Malaysian media reported Transport and Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein as saying on Wednesday that the report would be made public but gave no other details.

Malaysian officials said last week that the report already had been sent to ICAO.

ICAO requires countries to submit a factual run-down of what is known so far in any air crash within 30 days.

Prime Minister Najib Razak last week vowed to release the report “in the name of transparency”.

The Malaysia Airlines flight vanished on March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

It has reportedly been sighted in the Bay of Bengal, the Gulf of Thailand and the Indian Ocean - and even as far afield as the Maldives - but seven weeks after Flight MH370 went missing, searchers still have no firm clue where the Malaysia Airlines plane actually is.

Still waiting...Relatives of Chinese passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 leave a conference room after a meeting with Malaysian officials at a hotel in Beijing. Picture: APSource: AP

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